FRANK, Augustus, (nephew of William Patterson of New York and George Washington Patterson),
a Representative from New York;
born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, N.Y., July 17, 1826;
attended the common schools;
engaged in mercantile pursuits;
director and vice president of the Buffalo & New York City Railroad Co.;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856;
elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1865);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1864;
director of Wyoming County National Bank in 1865;
member of the State constitutional convention in 1867 and 1868;
one of the managers of the Buffalo State Hospital for the Insane at Buffalo, N.Y., 1870-1882;
organized the Bank of Warsaw in 1871 and served as president until his death;
director of the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co.;
State commissioner for the preservation of public parks;
member of the board of directors of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad;
delegate at large to the State constitutional convention in 1894;
died in New York City April 29, 1895;
interment in Warsaw Cemetery, Warsaw, N.Y.